This ‘Vintage Decor’ item has been hand sourced from Europe. We restore our vintage items and pride ourselves on quality.

This vintage item could be used to display/store your bubbly wine needs!

Riddling racks are used in the champagne making process to collect the yeast and sediment in a bottle and concentrate it near the mouth of the bottle.

Dimensions: 1500mm H x 725mm L x 700mm W (open at floor)

Riddling racks are critical to the process of making Champagne. After the sparkling wine has aged on the lees or it’ s yeast , it is ready to be finished. Remuage or riddling is the process that collects the yeast and sediment in a bottle and concentrate it near the mouth of the bottle.

After initial fermentation in the bottle, the bottles are inclined at a 45-degree angle on a riddling rack, which is made up of two simple rectangular boards hinged at the top. Each side is consists of bored holes, totaling six along ten rows able to hold the neck of a champagne bottle. This means each riddling rack can hold 120 bottles. Some riddling racks can hold more. The riddler puts the neck of a bottle of Champagne in each of the holes. A mark placed on the bottom of each bottle acts as a reference marker, with all markers on all bottles in the rack pointing in the same direction. Over the next few weeks on a daily basis, the riddler rotates every bottle a few degrees which is an art unto itself. At the same time he raises the bottle’s bottom slightly, lowering the neck maybe a centimeter or two each week. After a few weeks bottles that started at a 45-degree angle are now slanted to a 60-degree angle and are neck-down in their holes.

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